Technical difficulties on our side caused Clark Aldrich to give his SL Future Salon presentation via text chat. Understanding of technical hiccups on the frontier, he was kind enough to follow-up with this 15-minute audio download produced just for the occasion. Think of it as a virtual virtual presentation as Clark addresses the Second Life Future Salon audience after the fact in an audio recording of excerpts from his new book, "Learning by Doing".

Clark has included the chart below as accompaniment to the audio (click pic to enlarge), and "Continue reading..." to see the slides from his presentation in Second Life. I'll also be adding a write-up with quotes to this post soon. And BTW, Clark says don't be shy about emailing him questions directly. You might also post them in the comments and I'll bring them to his attention. Again, click here for the audio download.

[Edit 6/6] Over on Learning Circuits, Clark has added the following thoughts on the above chart and presentation:

"It suggests in order to understand "The Humanities," (the wisdom of the people who came before us) one thing you have to understand is business strategies. In order to understand business strategies, one thing you have to understand is personal improvement. And in order to understand personal improvement, one thing you have to look at is what you do everyday.

All of the most important skills/knowledge/wisdom cut across all these layers. Just focusing on one layer is almost always distorting.

Accepting this view, one might see a unification

between academics and business,
between what we know and what we do, and
between understanding the past and impacting the future."